yves & claude

[noirges]

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[noirges]

Should we go... drinking? Hot spring? Beach? Spa day?

[ yves is already rolling up his sleeves and grabbing his own pair of gloves as well as some garden shovels and packets of seeds...

continues rattling things off until claude stops him ]

Tea? Dinner? Dancing?

[midway]

I wouldn't mind a soak in the springs now that you mention it...

[ he wants to be boiled like a crab ]

[noirges]

I haven't gotten to try it yet! Adolphe was too shy when I asked.

[ unclear if that's what happened

but he puts all the necessary things for farming into a lil wheel barrow ]

I think it'd be good for tired muscles, too.

[midway]

Shy?

[ ?? About... your body? Can't relate. Anyway, just watches Yves do all the work. ]

You're right in that. I do miss the strain of an exhausted body after a long day of training.

[noirges]

Adolphe was surprisingly shy…

[ was he… yves is saying so with a gremlin smile

but he’ll bring their supplies over to an empty row of soil and reach out ]

Need help with your glove, Claude?

[ makes the guy with a broken arm do labor ]

[midway]

[ Humming, and just following along after him. ]

No, I can get it on all right.

[ He is waiting for instruction. ]

[noirges]

[ yippee!! then yves will offer claude a spade once he gets his glove on. ]

Then you can watch me for the process of planting. Then we’ll water them all and call it a day!

[ but yves plans on sowing an entire row and then some so this will,, take a second,,

HANDWAVES AN EXPLANATION… yves just talks like someone who’s truly spent so much time around plants, explaining cross-breeding as he goes. lil farmer guy ]

[midway]

[ He will listen! And do as instructed... without much enthusiasm.

Looking at the recently planted plots. ]

You and Lucas both have nurturing sides in different ways, hm?

[noirges]

[ amused: ] I'll have you know I'm also great with kids.

But I guess so. Are you saying you don't, Claude?

[midway]

That's not really surprising.

[ Sits down and stretches out his legs. ]

Not really. I'm not good with children, and I've never had an interest in raising plants or anything.

[noirges]

[ joins claude in his sit!! also streeeetching, though he's already pretty flexible ]

You seem like you already had a lot going on. Looking after a country and... war? [ in what glimpses he could articulate after cyoa, and yves picked up context clues ]

Nobody can be good at everything.

[midway]

Yeah, I think it's sweet you two are so nurturing though. There's definitely satisfaction to be had in watching something grow under your care.

[ Actually, ]

I guess I have raised a couple wyverns.

[noirges]

Wyverns...?

[ he's way too normal for that ]

[midway]

They're like horse-sized dragons. We use them as steeds where I'm from.

[noirges]

[ WHAT ]

What.... Dragons?! That's so amazing....!

[midway]

[ Laughs. ]

I think so too. Galloping on horseback certainly isn't dull, but I've gotten used to the views of flying up high.

[noirges]

I've never even dreamed of it...

[ a little awed ]

I wish I could see, too. Maybe we could've left our island and gotten more help if it was possible to take to the skies.

[midway]

You've never left the island?

[ Head tilt. ]

Because of the curse?

[noirges]

Lots of reasons?

The waters around the island make it hard to access in general, but then the curse made us isolated because people thought it would spread. Then there were the Relivers, which Scien didn't want his technology leaving the island...

We only ever had one person in our recorded history come to our island from the outside, and we call him the Drifter.

[midway]

[ claude: inbreeding...? what is the population of this island? ]

The Drifter? Did people ostracize him?

[noirges]

[ WELL IT'S NOT A FULL POPULATION BUT STILL DAMN ]

Ostracize... I think it's more like they were frenetic over him. They thought that our 23 year old life span was normal until he arrived, and then they were consumed by despair realizing that our island was cursed.

So they consumed all the Drifter's knowledge and then tried to study him, thinking that his body would lead to an answer that would cure everyone else. [ frowns ] This did happen over a hundred years ago but... I think it'd still happen today.

[midway]

Studied him like...? Ethically?

[ Whoa. ]

[noirges]

[ thinks about the people involved ]

Probably not.

The Drifter went into hiding at some point... and I don't think any reasonable person could blame him.

[midway]

Interesting... I don't envy him. Seems like a lonely life.

But I can't blame the people of your island for wanting a cure either. 23 years isn't a long time at all.

[1/2]

[noirges]

[ he looks elsewhere for a bit before he makes a soft noise of understanding ]

Scien found a cure eventually, at least. So I'm lucky or else I'd be bedridden by now.

[ oh to be 22 and nearly at the end of your lifespan ]

... but I do feel for the Drifter. To be trapped away from home, trying to help others, but having your life threatened... and outliving everyone you love.

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